Frank Carlson Library

The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. Ned Blackhawk...

From the USA Today–bestselling author of The Last Mountain Man, an Old West gunfighter closes in on the men who killed his family.

William W. Johnstone's vivid, uncompromising novels stand as violent portraits of the rugged American frontiersman and the forces that forged him. In this powerful novel, Johnstone tells the story of a young Missourian forced by fate and violence into lawlessness—where he sees a...

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized...

Synthesis of North American Indian heritage.

To escape her boyfriend, schoolteacher Angela Prescott moves to Minneapolis where she meets an orphaned half-Indian boy who helps her find a job as a waitress, and whom she eventually adopts. When she is beaten by hoods, the boy takes her to a man who lives in a cave in a park and only shows himself at night to hide his disfigured face. He helps her recover and the two fall in love.

Traditional tales from North American Indian tribes woven into one story that relates the adventures of one boy as he grows to manhood.

Fictionalized biography of Colonel Charles Jesse Jones ("Buffalo Jones"), 1844-1919, a frontiersman and wild game hunter. Jones, the last of the plainsmen, and several associates venture into the region of Buckskin Mountain, along the northern rim of the Grand Canyon. In a continuing quest to establish dominion over wild animals, Jones leads his men on a journey to capture untamed cougars and bring them back alive. After several run-ins with Navajo,...

Sequel to: The Indian in the Cupboard. A year after he sends his Indian friend, Little Bear, back into the magic cupboard, Omri decides to bring him back only to find that he is close to death and in need of help.